Finding Aid for the J. Edward Knowlton Pathology Notebook Biomed.0228

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
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Online finding aid last updated 2020 November 30.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: J. Edward Knowlton Pathology notebook
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0228
Physical Description: 1 unknown (1 notebook)
Date: circa 1841
Language of Material: English .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4885001 

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a holograph notebook written in ink and pencil; author identified on label on cover: J. Edward Knowlton of 80 East Concord St., Boston. Perhaps lecture or ward notes from a medical school or teaching hospital. Notations contain recipes, diagnosis, treatment, and course for: poisons and poisonings; cholera; dry gangrene; progressive tissue changes; tumors; carcinoma; pleurisy; anemia of the liver; syphilis; caustic alkalis; symptoms of arsenic poisoning and the stages of death; and more. Earliest date based on citation of the Reinsch method to test for the presence of arsenic in a solution.